Project Management 1 / Project Management 1

Department of Technology and Innovation, Odense
Teaching activity id: X-PMA1-U02.
Teaching language: English.ECTS / weighting: 5 ECTS / 0.083 full-time equivalent.
Period: Spring 2018.Approved: 18-03-15.
Offered in: Odense.
Subject director:
Associate Professor Tom Sterobo, Institut for Teknologi og Innovation.

Content - Key areas:
  • Project based learning
  • Reasons for teamwork?
  • Teamwork and Transaction Analysis
  • How to handle Conflicts
  • Effective Team Meetings
  • Effective Team Members.
  • Multicultural Cultural Awareness
  • The business concept
  • Demand for Projects
  • Type of Projects
  • Phases in a Project
  • The Elements and planning of a Project
  • The outside World and Interested Parties (stakeholders and sponsors).
  • Work Brake down Structure of a Project (WBS).
  • Project planning and follow up - Time, Resources and Budget. Gantt, Network, and PMS
  • Budgeting and Cost control
  • Project Management and Risk Management
  • Observance Probability of Cost and Time
  • Commercial Aspects in buying-in Turn Key Projects

Learning outcomes:
Competences
  • Do planning and description of a project.
  • Behave and act as a project manager
  • Behave and act as a team player.
  • Do a formulation of the company's: Mission, goals and strategy
  • Use a contract concept for buying in projects

Skills
  • Assess the basis organization and a project organization in a company.
  • Analyze a project and its elements
  • Make the main plan of a project.
  • Do detail planning and follow-up in Gantt, Network and PMS.
  • Do the budgeting and follow up as a part of project management.
  • Do project risk management
  • Do successive calculation of the budget and schedule


Knowledge
  • Identify and implement the four aspects of a project: The technical, the organizational, the business and the political aspects
  • Develop teamwork in working groups
  • Describe the roles to be played in teamwork

Time of classes:
Spring / Autumn

Lessons:
48 hours

Evaluation
Evaluation based on an individual oral examination. Marks according to the Danish 7-point grading scale. Internal examiner.

Comments:
Multicultural Awareness – not relevant for students at Learning and Experience Technology (BSc in Engineering)

The educational concept "The Engineering Education Model of the University of Southern Denmark", which underlies the curriculum for your study program, is structured around the objectives for the study program, the semester and the module. Accordingly, you should, as part of your studies, keep informed on objectives stated in the relevant study level of the curriculum for your study program.

For information on place and time of lectures please contact us by phone 65509517 or email sfo@iti.sdu.dk.

Programmes:
Bachelor of Manufacturing Engineering and Management
5. semester, elective subject. Offered in: Odense
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Physics and Technology)
5. semester, elective subject. Offered in: Odense
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Energy Technology)
5. semester, elective subject. Offered in: Odense
Bachelor of Engineering in Information and Communication Technology
5. semester, elective subject. Offered in: Odense
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Welfare Technology)
5. semester, elective subject. Offered in: Odense